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...rousing parade was in progress. At its head, astride the White Horse, rode Representative Hamilton Fish, magnificent in khaki and gold braid. The White Horse was walking backward. Next came Colonel McCormick, Captain Patterson and "Cissie" Patterson, dressed as the Spirit of '76 with drums and fife abeat and asqueal. They were followed by rank on rank of portly male and female Delegates, all dressed like Grand Marshal Fish, all on similar white horses, each flaunting a khaki banner blazoned with four silver stars. The rear was brought up by a swarm of lovable little Mugwumps, ringing cowbells...
Scotland had suffered accordingly. Between 1931 and 1936, unemployment was never less than 23%, rose in Clydeside, Fife and Lanark as high as 65%-until a year and a half before World War II, it was 87.9% worse than in England...
...Fife, formerly of the Tale Gallery in London, will give a free public lecture today at 6 o'clock in the Fogg Museum...
...Hyde Park Harry Hopkins went out on the porch for a breath of air, happy to bursting point. The tension in the house had relaxed. Down the Albany Post Road tootled and whammed a fife, drum and bugle corps, behind them a straggling crowd of 500 villagers, carrying red railroad flares. Newsreelmen lit brilliant white flares, and Squire Roosevelt of Hyde Park, first third-term President of the U. S., came out on the stone porch to joke with his friends. All day he had been jovially confident. That morning after voting (No. 292) at the town hall, accompanied...
...Stadium today will be the scene of the all-day competition of the Legion fife and drum corps, from 7 o'clock until almost midnight. Seating arrangements have been prepared for 40,000 spectators. Harvard undergraduates will serve as ticket-takers and ushers...